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the highlands of Uhehe, the Kiombo Mountains, and Urundi and 

 Ruanda, linking the Kivu region with the Songea area, or that 

 wrungensis would prove to be identical with hilineatus. Otherwise, 

 the characters on which these races are based have no geographical 

 continuity. 



There is some doubt as to where the type of kandtl really came 

 from. It was collected by a missionary named Kandt who was 

 stationed near Lake Kivu, but who collected birds in many places 

 in eastern Africa as his wanderings were fairly extensive, and all 

 his birds were sent to Reichenow as a collection from " Lake Kivu." 

 It may be that it actually came from the south end of Lake Tangan- 

 yika, in which case kandti would be a pure synonym of wunr/ensis. 



4. P. h. fischeri. — The coastlands of east Africa from Mombasa 

 to Mikindani. Sclater *^ limits this bird to the coastal strip from 

 Mombasa to Zanzibar, but Grote *^ collected two birds at Mikindani 

 which approach fischeri in their characters, and may best be referred 

 to that form. This race is the lightest, brightest yellow (least 

 greenish) on the underparts of any of the subspecies of this tinker 

 bird. It is small in size (wings 50-52 millimeters), has the super- 

 ciliaries and malar stripe lightly washed with pale yellowish, and 

 has the yellow edges of the wings and tail as dark as in the typical 

 form. 



5. P. h. conciUato7\ — The Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Ter- 

 ritory. Similar to fischeri in size (wings 51.5-53 millimeters) and 

 in coloration except that the lower breast and belly are darker, more 

 greenish olive. 



6. P. h. jackso7ii. — ]\Iount Elgon and the Mau Plateau to the 

 western side of the Rift Valley. This form is darker than any of 

 the first five, and has the belly yellowish olive green lightly washed 

 with grayish, the flanks with a tawny tinge, the yellow edges of the 

 wings and tail much paler than in hilineatus. Wings (males) 5G-59 

 millimeters. 



7. P. h. alius. — The forest areas of the western Ukamba and the 

 Kikuyu districts, west of the Rift Valley, Kenj-a Colony. Similar 

 to jacksoni but smaller (Aving 53-56 millimeters in the males) and 

 darker below, more grayish on the throat and breast, less clear 

 greenish yellow on the abdomen (more definitely tinged with 

 grayish). Van Someren ^" writes that the western Kenian birds 

 (jacksoni) have the rump darker, yellow chrome, while the eastern 

 ones (alius) have this area canary yellow. This difference does not 

 hold. It is purely a matter of individual variation. 



« Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 283. 

 «'Journ. f. Ornith., 1912, p. 523. 

 *8Nov. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, p. 59. 



